Date:	Monday 18 October 1965
Time:
Type:	Boeing S.307B-1 Stratoliner
Owner/operator:	ICSC, lsf Compagnie Int. de Transports Civil Aériens
Registration:	F-BELV
MSN:	1996
Year of manufacture:	1939
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 13 / Occupants: 13
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Aircraft missing, written off
Category:	Unlawful Interference
Location:	near Hanoi -   Vietnam
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Passenger - Non-Scheduled/charter/Air Taxi
Departure airport:	Vientiane-Wattay Airport (VTE/VLVT)
Destination airport:	Hanoi-Gia Lam Airport (VVGL)

Narrative:
The French Boeing SA.307 Stratoliner was operated on behalf of the International Commission for Supervision and Control in Vietnam (ICSC). On board were four French crew members and nine international delegation members of the ICSC.
The flight departed Vientiane-Wattay Airport in Laos at 15:05 hours. The crew contacted Hanoi-Gia Lam Airport in Vietnam at 15:20, giving its estimated time of arrival as 16:44 hours. This was the last radio contact.
French and Canadian forces searched for the plane over Laotian territory but were refused to search over North Vietnam. North Vietnamese authorities reported that they did not find the plane.
A study by the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade in 1996 concluded that the aircraft most likely crashed due to inadvertent or deliberate anti-aircraft fire by a North Vietnamese military unit.

Canadian Peacekeepers in Indochina 1954-1973: Recollections / edited by Arthur E. Blanchette
Air Pictorial 2/66 p.56
Stephen Wynn
Boeing S-307/C-75 Stratoliner production list / G. Goodall

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